Philippe Richer

Philippe Richer (2009)

Philippe Richer (born November 20, 1923 in Paris ; † February 6, 2018 there ) was a French diplomat , historian and resistance fighter against the Nazi state .

Life

Philippe Richer came from an upper middle class family with roots in Chartres , Ariège and Brittany . Richer studied at the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Saint-Louis . He was a graduate of the Paris Institute for Political Studies (Department of International Relations, Class 1952) and a former student of the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr and the National College of Administration (Guy Desbos class). He also studied at Columbia University in New York and the University of Oxford .

In 1943, at the age of 19, he tried to join the French armed forces in North Africa, but was betrayed by a smuggler and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp . He escaped the transport but was captured again. Richer remained imprisoned in Buchenwald from July 1943 until the camp was liberated on April 11, 1945.

After the liberation he entered the diplomatic career and was stationed in Algiers , in the first diplomatic mission after Algeria's independence, and in Moscow and Bucharest , among others . In 1965 he was an accredited representative in Mongolia , the first French diplomatic envoy in Mongolia since Louis IX. in 1253. From 1974 to 1976, at the time of the conquest of Saigon, he was the French ambassador in Hanoi (Vietnam).

The staunch Gaullist rejected de Gaulle's takeover of government in 1958, considered it insufficiently democratically legitimized and supported Pierre Mendès France . He was appointed to the Council of State by François Mitterrand in 1982 , the first member of the Socialist Party to join the Council of State in several decades.

With his friend Stéphane Hessel , he organized annual seminars for European schoolchildren to make them aware of human rights and democratic ideals, as well as the resistance .

In December 2013 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor .

He died in February 2018 at the age of 94 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

Publications

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• China and the Third World , Payot, 1971.

• South East Asia. Independence and Communisms, Imprimerie nationale , 1981, ISBN 9782110807588

• Foursome game in Southeast Asia , PUF, 1982.

• China from 1949 to today (in collaboration with Jean-Luc Domenach), Imprimerie nationale then Le Seuil , two volumes, 1987 and 1995, ISBN 978-2-02-023746-8

• Southeast Asia , Flammarion, 1996.

• Hanoi 1975: Diplomat and reunification of Vietnam , L'Harmattan, Mémoires aséens collection, 1993.

• Crises in Southeast Asia , Presses de Sciences Po, 1999.

• Cambodia: a tragedy of our time , Paris, Presses de la Fondation nationale des science politiques, coll. “Academic Collection”, September 30, 2001, 221 pages, ISBN 9782724608540

• In all my states - a French itinerary , Les Indes Savantes, 2013, ISBN 978-2-84654-305-7

• China in the middle of Asia: from Mao to Xi , Les Indes Savantes, 2017, 240 pages, ISBN 978-2-84654-462-7

Honors

• 1982: Prix littéraire de l'Asie

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The article was imported from: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Richer
2. ↑ https://www.sciences-po.asso.fr/profil/philippe.richer52_1 [archive].
3. ↑ http://www.lesbiographies.com/#/Biographie/RICHER-Philippe,32501 [archive]
4. ↑ France Inter, La Marche de l'Histoire, "Le Témoin du Vendredi," émission du 24 octobre 2014 [1] [archive]
5. ↑ Documents diplomatiques français: 1965 (1er janvier-30 juin) Commission de publication des Documents diplomatiques.
6. ↑ Hanoï 1975: un diplomate et la réunification du Viêt-nam, L'Harmattan, Collection Mémoires asiatiques, 1993
7. ↑ par example of the Lycée Périer de Marseille in 2011 [archive]
8. ^ "Avis de décès de Monsieur Philippe RICHER, décédé le 06 février 2018 à l'âge de 94 ans." [archive], sur avis-de-deces.net, 10 février 2018 (consulté le 14 février 2018)